Iron Man: Viva format? Under Marvel Knights banner. Working out page count. There's a lot of material to work with. Favreau is having fun making Granov work hard. Said Granov had to teach him how to write comics and now has to stop doing covers and actually get something done.

Starting in Initiative #8 we'll start to see some of the teams in other states.

New ongoings from Conquest? Maybe. We'll see.

No Livewire plans.

Usual run around on Iron Man's "villainy." Various people say Iron Man is more interesting as flawed, conflicted character.

Killing a lot of characters... are you going to introduce more? Dan Buckley says they're introducing more characters now than in the last several years.

Guy won't let the idea of killing characters go. Marvel's argument is that they are storytellers and if the stories are truly great.

C. B. Cebulski is helping launch the world's largest independent comic book talent search. Details coming. 12 artists will be hired from this and announced at NYCC 2008.

Will Fin Fang Foom wear pants? Nope! Favreau points to Adi Granov as the man responsible for not wearing pants. "Hey, I think that means it is even better! Naked Fin Fang Foom!" - Dan Slott

Plans for more Young Avengers? Title bounced around in the creative retreats a lot. Want Heinberg back. Not sure if he'll be directly involved. Hoping to have it out in the next year. Need to find a creative team as well. Regardless, Heinberg will help steer the direction of the new series.

Drunk Tony in Viva Las Vegas? "I don't think it will be that heavy. I'm letting all that inform what I'm doing, but it's fun to not have to worry about all that. There's a reference to that and I'm not changing who he is though." - Favreau

Granov: So far every panel Stark has a drink in his hand.

Ultimate Hulk vs. Wolverine will finish when? Buckley: End to that within the next eight months or so. Damon Lindelof has been working on getting in the scripts. We're waiting on all the scripts, then we'll get it drawn and get it in the schedule.

Is Marvel planning on reducing its carbon footprint? Buckley: Issue has been brought up, but we have no real solution at the moment.

MAX Kitty Pryde series? Uh, no. Buckley banishes guy to the back of the room.

When will Thor come back to Marvel Universe? Issue #3 is Thor vs. Iron Man. First six issues are more establishing but then others will show up over time. - FIN -